An anti-fracking bill crafted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) aims to end the practice altogether, making it illegal “on all onshore and offshore land in the United States” by Jan. 1, 2025.
Left-wing actor Mark Ruffalo teased the bill last week, allowing Sanders to jokingly knock him for “ruining the surprise” of the new fracking legislation.
“I don’t mind if @MarkRuffalo spoils his own movies. But please, don’t ruin the surprise of our new legislation with Rep. @AOC, @SenJeffMerkley and @RepDarrenSoto,” Sanders wrote with an accompanying clip of the Avengers actor evidently “spoiling” the upcoming legislation:
I don’t mind if @MarkRuffalo spoils his own movies. But please, don’t ruin the surprise of our new legislation with Rep. @AOC, @SenJeffMerkley and @RepDarrenSoto.
I don’t want the dirty fracking industry CEOs to know what hit them. pic.twitter.com/OBbQnpOHsy
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 30, 2020
The bill, according to the Hill, aims to end fracking altogether, revoking permits for “wells where fracking takes place and that are within 2,500 feet of a home, school or other ‘inhabited structure’” beginning February 1, 2021.
It would also “immediately prevent federal agencies from issuing federal permits for expanded fracking, new fracking, new pipelines, new natural gas or oil export terminals and other gas and oil infrastructure.”
It would make the practice, which Ocasio-Cortez has identified as the “leading contributor to our climate emergency,” illegal by January 1, 2025.
“Fracking is a danger to our water supply. It’s a danger to the air we breathe, it has resulted in more earthquakes, and it’s highly explosive,” Sanders said in a statement, according to the Hill. To top it all off, it’s contributing to climate change.”
“If we are serious about clean air and drinking water, if we are serious about combating climate change, the only safe and sane way to move forward is to ban fracking nationwide,” he continued.
[All of these activist talking points have been debunked repeatedly. Sadly, Bernie and AOC are using the simple method of repetitive lying and a disabled media to keep these falsehoods alive. -CCD Ed.]
Critics of Sanders have defended the practice, warning that its elimination would “spike household energy costs and hurt farmers and manufacturers.”
American Petroleum Institute spokeswoman Bethany Aronhalt told the Hill:
Banning a safe, successful method of developing energy would erase a generation of American energy progress and in the process destroy millions of U.S. jobs, spike household energy costs and hurt farmers and manufacturers.
“Thanks to fracking, the United States is the global leader in reducing carbon emissions,” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) tweeted in response to the announcement:
Thanks to fracking, the United States is the global leader in reducing carbon emissions. https://t.co/JbQZbzFvxX
— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) February 3, 2020
Sanders has long maintained the need for the elimination of fracking, promising to ban it during his presidential bid in 2016.
“If I win, we are going to ban fracking all across this country,” Sanders said at the time.
That call has carried over to his current presidential campaign as well. In September, Sanders called on his colleagues to support a ban.
“Any proposal to avert the climate crisis must include a full fracking ban on public and private lands,” Sanders stated, dismissing “safe fracking” as “pure fiction”:
NEW: @BernieSanders calling on all Democratic candidates to support a full fracking BAN on all public and private lands. pic.twitter.com/YMbFEp26nP
— Anthony Adragna (@AnthonyAdragna) September 4, 2019
Similarly, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has vowed to ban fracking “everywhere”:
On my first day as president, I will sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands. And I will ban fracking—everywhere.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) September 6, 2019
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Its a new movie STUPID and I’M WITH STUPID starring Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez
All this because CO2 is the boogey man? What happens when it starts cooling off. Should we burn, burn, burn all the hydrocarbons we can, since that will warm the climate?
No credible evidence of any cross contamination from fracking. It is all eco wako BS.
This is going to get TweedleeDumb and TweedleDumber a big endorsment from the Ecology Freaks
28 Constitutional Amendment will solve all problems: Only people who are paying their taxes can vote.
Remember that AO-C slammed the door on Amazon and thousands of jobs for her constituency. Amazon might have fixed the very problem she exploits for power. If the voters in Queens re-elect her, they deserve the abuse.
Too bad we are on the same ship along with these mindless imbeciles in Queens.
I cannot believe how CLUELESS these Democratic candidates and Congressional members are about the basic domestic energy system. I truly wonder if any of these individuals have a SINGLE qualified staff member that understands environmental regulations, property law or energy imperatives. Bernie, AOC, et al would be EMBARRASSED by these types of proposals if they’d actually educate themselves and developed any working knowledge of our energy system & attendant transition challenges. Somehow, this conversation needs to change. Energy POVERTY is not a policy most Americans will come to enjoy…
Socialists live to ban. They feed off stupidity. It’s only because of America’s inherent strengths and freedoms that parasites like Bernie and AO-C can live off the low hanging fruit.